Stratigraphic Sediment Column (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Sediments in the Wesley Chapel Gulf were cored to provide a stratigraphic record for examining past vegetation. Ninety-five pollen samples were examined from this core to provide close-interval examination of the paleoenvironmental record. At this writing, no information is available concerning the basal date for this core, nor the approximate time period of accumulation for the sediments. Frequent flooding and depositional hiatuses are noted for this area, creating a sediment record from...